Configuring Brushes

The Mari Shelf and Tool Properties palettes let you select and customize a wide array of preset brushes, with a wide variety of brush properties you can edit. You can then drag modified brushes from the Tool Properties toolbar to a shelf for your ongoing personal use, or for a particular project only. You can also export and import brushes to share with other Mari users, and you can use keyboard-and-mouse shortcuts to modify your brush tips “on the fly”.

Brush properties generally apply to a splat (also sometimes called a “stamp”) - one application of the brush tip onto the canvas. A stroke is one continuous application of splats.

For some properties you can specify jitter - a random variation, to approximate how an actual (as opposed to digital) paintbrush might work.